The NYT has a good piece on Arab muralists and their work during the recent political movements with some of them included in a show at the New Museum in New York.
From Cairo to Beirut to Dubai, Arab artists have mounted a vigorous creative response to the political upheavals of the past few years, exploring a range of art-making strategies, including the street-art agitprop of Ganzeer and others, who draw from ancient hieroglyphics and teach themselves stenciling to put their cause on the walls. READ MORE
The Mission’s most recent political art has come out of the rise in evictions including Eviction, Garage Sale, a Sense of Place.